a) What is Biotechnology?
b) Give one commercial use of biotechnology.
c) Give 2 examples of crops genetically developed.
d) Define cloning.
e) What is Bioremediation?
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Answer:
1 biotechnology is technology based on biology - biotechnology harnesses cellular and biomolecular processes to develop technologies and products that help improve our lives and the health of our planet.
2 biotechnology has applications in four major industrial areas, including health care (medical), crop production and agriculture, non-food (industrial)
3 Tobacco, corn have been engineered to express genes encoding for insecticidal proteins from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt).
4 Every navel orange is a clone of a genetically mutated Brazilian orange. · The sea urchin was the first organism cloned.
5 Bioremediation is a process used to treat contaminated media, including water, soil and subsurface material, by altering environmental conditions to stimulate growth of microorganisms and degrade the target pollutants
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